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France 24 (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
Turkey is ready to oversee a new stage of secret peace talks between Israel and Syria, resuming a role it had played until last year, Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu said here Friday. Historically Israel's only friend in the Middle East, Ankara has in recent years served as a conduit for diplomatic exchanges between the Jewish state and its arch foe Damascus about improving relations.
Labourlist (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
By Jeremy Corbyn MP At one of the border points between Syria and Iraq, reached after a four hour drive across the stony desert from Damascus, the road is barred to all vehicles and travellers by a checkpoint. Those allowed through drive on. This is the road to Baghdad, where armies have marched, peace-makers have travelled and refugees have fled. Beside it, where the huge lorries lumber up to speed,...
SyriaComment (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
DAMASCUS, Syria — The German newspaper Der Spiegel published a shocking piece of investigative journalism this week, providing a behind-the-scenes exposé of the run-up to Israel’s bombing of an alleged nuclear power plant in the Syrian desert in 2007. The article relates how the Mossad, in a daring tale of high-wire international espionage, hacked into a [...]
Obsolete (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
At the weekend Ed Husain wrote an eminently reasonable, measured and very restrained in the circumstances attack on the more out there views of Melanie Phillips . Husain clearly feels that Phillips is a potential ally in the battle against radical Islam, although quite why judging by her record it's difficult to tell. His main concern now seems to be that rather than being an ally, she's becoming a...
GayandRight (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Der Spiegel has the complete story... The Israelis took a pinprick approach to dealing with the "little" Assad. In 2003, the air force conducted multiple air strikes against positions on the Syrian border, and in October Israeli fighter jets flew a low-altitude mission over Assad's residence in Damascus. It was an arrogant show of power that even had many at the Mossad shaking their heads,...
Al Ahram Weekly (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
For the past four years Syria has been begging for a partnership with the EU. Now the EU agrees, Syria says it'll think about it, Bassel Oudat reports from Damascus
LATICONOMICS (Free subscription) | 11/01/2009
Turkey: An Ally No More by Daniel Pipes The foreign ministers of Turkey and Syria met in Aleppo in October 2009. "There is no doubt he is our friend," Turkey's prime minister, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan , says of Iran's president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, even as he accuses Israel's foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman of threatening to use nuclear weapons against Gaza. These outrageous assertions...
Muslims Against Sharia (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
The arrests "[seem] to confirm what many people have suspected - that the security forces are susceptible to infiltration by insurgents or are just not up to the job." "Police arrested over Iraq bombing," from BBC News , October 29: Iraq has arrested more than 60 security force members, including 11 senior officers over Sunday's twin suicide bombing in the capital Baghdad. Those...
Elder of Ziyon (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Today was the traditional anniversary of the death of the matriarch Rachel, and thousands of Jews went to Rachel's Tomb to pray. Ma'an reported it this way: Thousands of Israelis, most of them ultra-Orthodox Jews, descended on the tomb of the Biblical matriarch Rachel in a militarized compound in the West Bank city of Bethlehem on Thursday. Right-wing religious groups petitioned Israel’s highest...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Tel Aviv - Israeli Defence Minister Ehud Barak Thursday welcomed a statement by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad that Damascus was ready to resume suspended talks with Israel. Barak said although Syria continued its support for radical Islamist movem...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
Syria this year has been in diplomatic high gear, holding more than six high-level meetings with the new administration of U.S. President Barack Obama and working to mend regional relations as well. Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah paid a visit to Damascus in early October, prompting analysts to predict a potential turning point in regional stability (GulfNews). CFR Adjunct Senior Fellow Mohamad Bazzi...
Power Line (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Khaled Meshaal is the terrorist murderer who compiled his record in Hamas, which he now heads. Hamas is an organization dedicated to the destruction of Israel through jihad. Article 28 of the Hamas covenant provides that "Israel, Judaism and Jews challenge Islam and the Moslem people. 'May the cowards never sleep.'" It's not tough to get a handle on what Hamas is all about. Paul Mirengoff...
Asia Times (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
Syria has delayed signing a long-awaited partnership agreement with the European Union, complaining it did not have enough time to prepare for this week's scheduled ceremony. Britain's Foreign Secretary David Miliband tells Asia Times Online that Damascus should be allowed time, given its emerging importance. - Sakhr Al-Makhadhi (Oct 28, '09)
Angry Arab News Service (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
I can't be hosted in Arab (or Iranian) media. The Aljazeera fellow who called me yesterday to invite me to offer a few opinions by phone (on US foreign policy, as always), he said that my voice has not been heard on AlJazeera in four months. I said: of course, not as I became a victims of their "sulhah" (reconciliation) with Saudi Arabia. And this morning a reporter for Al-Quds radio in Damascus...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Damascus - Syrian Foreign Minister Walid al-Moallem on Tuesday questioned the European Union's commitment to human rights, the Syrian newspaper al-Watan reported. Al-Moallem summoned ambassadors from EU countries to his office to tell them that their...
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